1- or 2-Night Stay with Wine and Bakery Basket at The Carisbrooke Inn in Ventnor City, NJ

The Carisbrooke Inn

Charming Bed and Breakfast Steps from the Atlantic City Boardwalk

After The Carisbrooke Inn innkeeper John Battista traveled around Europe extensively, he returned with an appreciation for European hospitality and applied it to his own bed and breakfast, located just blocks from the Atlantic City boardwalk. As a result, guests will notice the staff’s friendliness and attention to detail the moment they walk through the door, where a bellhop waits to greet them and tow their bags upstairs. In the evening, there’s more hospitality on the ocean deck—you might try John’s special wine blend, fresh bruschetta, and focaccia from an old family recipe.

In the morning, the inn hosts a three-course breakfast on its ocean-view parlor. The menu includes eggs any style, made-to-order omelets, pancakes with blueberries or bananas, french toast, hot oatmeal, and a choice of breakfast meats. They also have a continental buffet including juices, pastries, breads, coffee, tea, cold cereal, and yogurt.

When the weather is warm, the beach is the place to be. This deal includes a bread basket that can be used for an impromptu beach picnic.

From the outside, it's easy to see the inn's American foursquare-style architecture. But inside, Victorian touches and a warm color palette bring to mind a cottage in the French countryside. Each of the guest rooms is individually styled with antique furnishings and vintage pieces. The inn even has a piano and a guitar if you want to play a few tunes.

Less than two miles from downtown Atlantic City’s casinos and clubs lies its more subdued neighbor, Ventnor City. It’s a small, old-fashioned beach community with quaint shops and restaurants, a welcome complement to Atlantic City’s frenetic atmosphere.

The town is the perfect launch pad for trips to the beach’s signature boardwalk, which stretches for 6 miles along New Jersey's eastern coast. Originally built in 1870 to keep sand out of hotel lobbies, the boardwalk grew in popularity as a place where you could drink and gamble during Prohibition without much trouble from the police, as depicted in HBO's Boardwalk Empire. The boardwalk is still popular for its casinos, but it's family-friendly, too; visitors are just as inclined to sit at the beach or stop at one of the many carnival rides.

Proving further that Atlantic City isn't all nightclubs, boardwalk, and casinos is Gardner's Basin, a maritime village along the bay. Here, a community of artisans uses seashells and driftwood to hand-make items such as wind chimes and picture frames. However, the Basin's biggest claim to fame is the 25,000-gallon Atlantic City Aquarium swimming with turtles and rays.

Traveler's Tips

Customer Reviews

My husband and I LOVED it! The staff is so nice, breakfast delicious and the beach is right there!! Also, there are a couple amazing restaurants in walking distance! We would absolutely go back! It was fabulous!!

Elizabeth P. ·
November 4, 2013

The location is perfect and the rooms are so cute!

Elizabeth P. ·
November 4, 2013

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